Publication details
Petrželkova "Štafeta": Madrigali sportivi ed amorosi
| Title in English | Petrželka's "Štafeta": Madrigali sportivi ed amorosi |
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Opus musicum |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Art, architecture, cultural heritage |
| Keywords | Štafeta; Vilém Petrželka; relay races; carnivalesque |
| Description | This study presents a cultural-historical and semiopragmatic analysis of one of the main works of Czech interwar music, namely of Štafeta (1927) by Vilém Petrželka (1889-1967). The structure of the composition contains an intensive and extensive semantic impulse. The intensive one concerns the subordination of the structure to the "dominant" of "walking pattern" and the principle of rhythmical ostinato. The extensive one refers to relay runs - carnival festivities of the recycling of a collective national body at the time of the First Czechoslovak Republic. Due to these factors, the composition tended to be read as an ideological call up towards a common belief in the collective "new man". |
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